Mikael Damberg (S) does not want to see a joint electoral manifesto for the red -green opposition before the election next year.
He does not see the sprawling economic policy among the opposition parties as a problem, he says in Ekot’s Saturday interview.
The Social Democrats’ economic-political spokesman Mikael Damberg does not want to see a joint election manifesto for the opposition parties.
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The differences in economic policy between the red -green parties have been the focus after the opposition parties’ budget proposals have been presented.
The Center Party has an economic policy that differs from the other opposition parties. C wants to withdraw on a-cash, lower employer contributions, lower income taxes and not increase the grants-as opposed to S. The question of how the red-green should be able to control the country, despite the differences, has become increasingly relevant.
However, the Social Democrats’ economic-political spokesman Mikael Damberg sees no drama that the parties have different priorities before the election.
– Basically, I think it is very good that the parties have different views and report it to the voters, he says in Ekot’s Saturday interview on October 11.
No joint election manifesto
Mikael Damberg does not want the opposition parties to go to elections with common politics.
– I absolutely do not think we should have any form of joint election manifesto before the election. I think the parties should report their own positions before the election, he tells the radio.
He believes that it is a strength for Swedish democracy that the parties go to elections with their own programs and reforms, priorities and that cooperation across the block boundaries has been part of Swedish politics for a long time.
When asked if voters do not have the right to know what they get if they vote on the red -green side, Damberg replies that it is the voters who determine the strength conditions after the election, which they vote for.
– Should it be that you should cooperate across the block boundary, with a bourgeois party, for example as the Center Party is a bourgeois party, it is clear that they do not have the same political agenda we have. But if we are forced to cooperate with other parties, which we think we have to do because we do not think we get over 50 percent of the vote, then you have to give and take, you have to negotiate.
When it comes to the budget issue, Damberg is clear that the Social Democrats will not rule without being sure to get through their own budget in the Riksdag.
– You have to have a budget cooperation to get your budget through the Riksdag. I do not see that you can rule Sweden in any other way, he says in Ekot’s Saturday interview.
